A review by hollen
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson

“The colonizer/colonized axis continues to be configured within this postcolonizing society through power relations that are premised on our dispossession and resisted through our ontological relationship to land. Indigenous people’s position within the nation-state is not one where colonizing power relations have been discontinued. Instead, these power relations are at the very heart of the white national imaginary and belonging; they are postcolonizing.”
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“Patriarchal whiteness invests in property rights and is possessive and protective about asset accumulation and ownership. Here I use the term “possessive” to mean having an excessive desire to own, control, and dominate—"